Species
Caulostrepsis biforans (Gripp, 1967)
Taxon description
Blissett & Pickerill, 2007
Diagnosis– (Translation from the original German; after Hillmer & Schulz, 1973, p.10) “Long, blindly ending, slightly curved, tubular boring. Cross-section of the distal end is weakly dumb-bell to oval-shaped. At the proximal end of the trace four parallel rows of dimple-shaped chambers may occur.”
Description– Borings Y-shaped with circular apertural openings. The diameter of each aperture on individual specimens is constant. For the figured specimen the diameter is c. 110 μm. The borings are perpendicular to the substrate surface.
Synonymy list
1967 Polydora biforans — Gripp , pp. 9, fig. Pl. 1:3-5
1968 Polydora biforans — Gripp , pp. 378, fig. fig. 7, 10, 11
1972 Trypanites biforans — Bromley , pp. 96, fig. fig. 1j
1973 Ramosulcichnus biforans — Hillmer & Schulz , pp. 10
2007 Ramosulcichnus biforans (Gripp, 1967) — Blisset & Pickerill , pp. 94, fig. 4:4
2017 Ramosulcichnus biforans (Gripp, 1967) — Wisshak et al. , fig. 6b-d
2019 Caulostrepsis biforans — Wisshak et al.
2024 Caulostrepsis biforans (Gripp, 1967) — Knaust & Schnick , pp. 13, fig. 6G
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Osteichnidae |
| Genus | Caulostrepsis |
| Species | avipes |
| biforans | |
| contorta | |
| cretacea | |
| penicillus | |
| spiralis | |
| taeniola | |
| unranked | dunbari |